Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 00:46:11 03/08/03
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On March 05, 2003 at 10:37:14, Nolan Denson wrote: >If that is so ... and you believe it is so ... I am happy you found your >favorite cpu, But its all a game and they give you a little at a time. The >research that is done is like 10 yrs a head. You will see some great >improvements with the next P4 core (Prescott New Instructions & Hyper-Threading >Improvements). But keep your eye's on another chip maker (TMTA).. I think there >engineers finally got a winner. I seem to remember reading something about they >got something that can do 8 instructions a clock cycle. Transmeta CPUs are much slower because they are emulators. The Transmeta Astro isn't very fast. They are a winner in some cases, but in raw performance they lose big-time. They are designed for power-efficiency. The Crusoe and Astro are both VLIW chips. The Crusoe does 4 IPC, and the Astro does 8 IPC. Like Intel, AMD has plans for the future. Their plans include playing big in the server market and dominating the x86 market with faster CPUs that have lower memory latency and more bandwidth. The K8 will include SSE 2 support in addition to being the first and only x86-64 chip. -Matt
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